However, a study published in October 2025 may have finally solved the mystery surrounding their origin, linking the ...

Two years ago, a robotic submersible ventured under the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica and never returned, lost somewhere ...

Learn how, after one of the world’s most sensitive neutrino detectors discovered mysterious radio pulses in Antarctica, ...

Pink granite boulders sitting mysteriously atop Antarctica’s Hudson Mountains have led scientists to a stunning discovery: a ...

Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main stage. Now a series of discoveries from the bottom of the world is forcing ...

Researchers have sounded the alarm after recording Antarctica's third-lowest level of winter sea ice since satellite tracking began nearly 50 years ago, per Phys.org — another sign of how quickly our ...

A glacier in Antarctica about the size of Philadelphia lost half of its entire mass in just two months, according to a shocking new study. The alarming discovery of the Hektoria Glacier's stunning ...

In six trips to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams endured brutal conditions on the coldest, driest, windiest continent on Earth in order to learn the secrets of the mysterious Weddell seals, the ...

(CNN) — During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking geometric patterns on the floor of Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea created by fish.

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.